Synopses & Reviews
A major contribution to the understanding of Heidegger and a rare attempt to fuse analytic and Continental philosophy.
Review
"Lafont's book is extremely rigorous and well thought through. It is an important addition to Heidegger studies as well as to the philosophy of language in general." Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal"In her excellent Heidegger, Language, and World-Disclosure Cristina Lafont urges a fresh way of looking at the issue: she argues that cognition and assertion (which are for Heidegger intimately related) are dependent not upon precognitive, engaged practice, but rather upon language as a holistic phenomenon." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
Table of Contents
Introduction: the linguistic turn in the German tradition of the philosophy of language; Part I. Heidegger's Conception of